A Parliament Where Nothing Stands on a Pedestal
JesuitenFoyer Vienna presents PARLAMENT by Jörg Reissner. Installation from scrap MDF, plywood, and canvas, arranged at eye level.
The Living Archive – A Curated Record of Contemporary Art
Explore the Living Archive by Catapult (formerly Munchies Art Club). A comprehensive directory of contemporary artists, exhibitions, and long-form features
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The Organism Was Never the Exception
Karim Boumjimar at Møstings Frederiksberg. Wall paintings, ceramics, and silver casts map the body inside nature's cycles. Through June 7, 2026.
HAGD Contemporary: Michael Kærgaard and the Logic of Monsters
HAGD Contemporary presents Michael Kærgaard’s Mother of Many, an exhibition of stoneware figures where monstrosity, tenderness, and material force collide.
What Happens When Art Becomes Belief? Susanne Wenger at Halle für Kunst Graz
Susanne Wenger Àdùnní Olórìṣà returns to Graz at Halle für Kunst Steiermark. A quiet, overdue rediscovery of art, belief, and a life shaped beyond Europe.
Can Painting Wear Armour and Still Feel Tender? Fátima de Juan and Her Dino-Fueled Amazons
Fátima de Juan paints monumental, fruit-charged figures that balance tenderness and threat, drawing from graffiti roots and a fiercely personal inner mythology.
Can Painting Carry Time Without Choosing a Side? Artist Spotlight Ruben Einsmann
Ruben Einsmann uses painting to layer medieval imagery with contemporary symbols, creating surfaces where time, memory, and erosion remain unresolved.
Can Threads Hold History Without Becoming Narrative? Avraam Hirodontis in Focus
Avraam Hirodontis works with canvas, fabric, soil dyes and layered textiles to explore material intelligence, memory and structure without relying on narrative.
Nadine Karl creates installations where time, memory, and space fall out of sync. An artist spotlight on perception, slowness, and resistance.
Nadine Karl builds spaces where time and memory lose their grip. An artist spotlight on installation, perception, and the politics of slowness.
What Can Theatre Teach Sculpture? Artist Spotlight Xiaozhou Liao
Xiaozhou Liao transforms theatre thinking into contemporary sculpture. His installations mix stagecraft, politics and play to question how neoliberal spaces shape our lives.
Why Do ‘Emerging Artist’ Opportunities Still Have an Age Limit?
Open calls and residencies often define ‘emerging artist’ as under 35, but real art careers don’t expire. Here’s why age limits in the art world are outdated.
Who Really Builds an Artist’s Career, and Who Just Collects the Credit
Small galleries invest time, risk, and belief. Mega galleries arrive when it is safe. Everyone pretends this is just how careers work.
Yuma Radne and the Return of Myth in Contemporary Painting
How Yuma Radne brings Buryat mythology into contemporary painting, exploring identity, memory, and myth through vivid, symbolic works.
The Living Archive
Bety Krňanská: She Drives the Frame Now
Bety Krňanská turns car parts, lace, and leather into feminist sculpture that redefines control and softness
Rosina Rosinski: When the Body Leaves the Frame
Rosina Rosinski’s textile works abandon canvas for quilted absence—velvet, polyester, and emotion stitched into haunting, intimate spaces.
Exploring Aesthetics: Duyi Han's Remarkable Journey In Art And Design
Duyi Han merges art, neuroscience, and architecture, crafting visual environments that resonate across cultures and emotions. With accolades and global recognition, his work redefines aesthetics through emotion-led design.
🌿 Stefanie Pullin: A Lisbon-Based Painter Redefining Nature in Contemporary Art
Stefanie Pullin explores the sacred tensions between instinct, nature, and memory in lush, haunted canvases that blur reality with reverie. A new voice from Lisbon, grounded in roots, ruin, and radical slowness.
🔥 9 Contemporary Artists to Watch This June: Curated by Gvantsa Jishkariani for Munchies Art Club
9 contemporary artists to watch this June, handpicked by curator Gvantsa Jishkariani for Munchies Art Club. From surreal paintings to bold textile works — meet the rising names shaping tomorrow’s art world.
Alessio Guano: The IntroFunction Dialogue
And still, there is critique, there is language, there is presence – Alessio Guano transforms each fragment into a universe of its own. Now in conversation with DiFranco for Munchies Art Club.
Igigo Wu: The Trauma Wears Wings
Taiwanese artist Igigo Wu merges painting, textile, and performance to confront colonial trauma, diasporic identity, and the politics of memory. Based in Zürich and Vienna, her work evokes rejection, ritual, and histories too brutal for language.
Gabriela Genčúrová in Conversation: On Instinct, Symbolism, and the Quiet Power of the Surreal
Gabriela Genčúrová is a visual artist based in Slovakia whose work inhabits the dreamlike space between surrealism and the emotional sensibilities of the digital age. Her creations evoke scenes that feel pulled from a dream: playful at first glance, yet subtly unsettling and deeply human.
Friedrich Herz Turns Broken Furniture into Brutal Sculpture
Discarded tables, stove tiles, scarred wood. Friedrich Herz transforms everyday materials into raw, poetic sculptural forms.
Mark Van Wagner Paints with Sand and Lets Time Do the Rest
Sand, pigment, erosion, patience. In conversation with Mark Van Wagner about material, time, and letting painting behave like geology. Interview with Di Franco
Why Your Mom Likes Your Art Posts First - And What That Says About Instagram
Your mom likes your posts first. Not just love - it’s the algorithm. Artists, here’s what that means for visibility, reach, and actual followers.
Wunderkammer: Voliere – Birds, Fantasies and Cages of the Mind
A poetic deep dive into Wunderkammer: Voliere, the permanent art installation at Hotel Galántha in Eisenstadt. Opposite Esterházy Palace, birds, myths, music, and modernity collide in this contemporary cabinet of curiosities—curated by Vitus Weh with Katharina Hoffmann for Esterházy Contemporary.
Filzmäuse: The Collective That Turns Soft Materials Into Hard Truths
Meet Filzmäuse, a wickedly creative artist collective weaving wit, wool, and wild ideas into something delightfully absurd. Formed in Vienna in 2024, this quartet challenges what a textile-based practice can be, with felting needles, humor, and sharp instincts.
A Standout Collaboration at Art Brussels 2025: Verduyn Gallery x The Why Not Gallery
Art Brussels 2025 showcases a standout collaboration between Verduyn Gallery and The Why Not Gallery, featuring powerful works by Gvantsa Jishkariani and Andreas Senoner. Discover one of the fair’s most evocative booths blending resilience, transformation, and bold contemporary art
Kuba Freter: Dreamers Don't Sleep - They Skate, Slam, and Smoke Through It
Kuba Freter’s latest series “Dreamers” blurs reality and fiction in raw, black-and-white images of youth, skate culture, and collective longing. A must-see feature via Munchies Art Club.
Hugo Brazão: Sculpting Escapism in a World of Fabric, Fiction, and Form
Step into the immersive world of Hugo Brazão, where sculpture, textile, and painting blur into vibrant spaces of memory, fiction, and escapism. In this in-depth interview, the artist reflects on childhood clay, cruel optimism, and the power of color as both camouflage and rebellion.
Editor’s Choice: 7 Artists You Need to Know
7 contemporary artists to watch: Igigo Wu, Marcus Soddano, Abel Kabel, Max Grote, Charlie Stein, Anji Woodley and Jonny Alexander. Selected by Munchies Art Club
Dominika Kováčiková Paints Girlhood with a Knife!
Step inside the candy-colored, emotionally charged world of Slovak painter Dominika Kováčiková, where girlhood is both battleground and mythology. Her surreal, hyper-feminine works tackle trauma, vulnerability, and the dark joy of rebellion.